... and musicology. Songs were among Brahms's first and last works, and much of his music is associated with words, whether overt texts or covert allusions. Essential to the composer's method of song-writing ...

... began with words, with the composer's discovery of a poet and a poetic work, but the scholarly study of lieder has tended to bypass those origins. Schubert's choice of poets has traditionally come under ...

... any other poet, Heinrich Heine has provided composers for almost two hundred years with texts for music: more than eight thousand compositions to date. Nineteenth-century composers were drawn in particular ...

... of the singer's early life, and a series of recollections of people (conductors, composers, pianists, other singers) with whom the singer worked during his long career. The revelations of self come mainly ...

... with Hotter during the final years of his life. The result is not merely an English translation of Hotter's memoirs (originally published as "Der Mai War Mir Gewogen" in Germany in 1996), but a significantly ...

... conclusion with Richard Strauss's 1948 Vier letzte Lieder, this rich repertoire has moved beyond the home and keyboard accompaniment to the symphony hall. This is a 2004 introductory chronicle of this ...

... a figure whom the author considers to be the greatest composer of the twentieth century. Kennedy deals fully with Strauss's life as leading composer and national figure in the Third Reich, during which ...

... Pierre Bernac formed a duo with the composer Francis Poulenc that became a legend throughout the world. Unprecedented in the history of music, it was the first duo in which the singer and pianist were ...

... the era, Kravitt contends that nearly all lied composers worked in a conservative political and artistic environment and experimented mainly within the inherited 19th-century tradition. He describes pre-World ...

... with changes in culture and society, led to the transformation of song into a major musical genre. This study of the great lieder of 19th-century composers Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, ...

... to Austrian parents. He studied conducting with Karl Österreicher at the College for Music in Vienna, and won First Prize at the Hans Swarowsky Conducting Competition in Vienna in June 1984. From ...

... In 1987 and 1990 Reck received a scholarship from the Tanglewood Music Festival to study with Seiji Ozawa and Leonard Bernstein.From 1990 to 1994 Reck was music director of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo, ...

... at Velletri, Osimo and Livorno and undertook advanced studies with Pietro Rigacci and Alessandro Specchi. She then attended a course of German Lied at the Hugo Wolf Scuola Superiore in Acquasparta directed ...

... in Salzburg with Carl Seeman, and at the Royaumont Foundation in France under Dalton Baldwin and Hans Hotter. Her brief career then became dedicated to chamber music, accompanying many illustrious ...

... music with Martin Katz, Geoffrey Parsons and John Wustman. Donald Sulzen accompanied in master-classes of Astrid Varnay, Eleonor Steber, Magda Olivero, George Shirley and Hermann Prey, and – himself ...

... pupil of Prof. Elio Battaglia in Turin and at the Academy “Hugo Wolf” in Acquasparta (Italy). Arts graduate with a BA in Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures (German/Arabic) at the University ...

... has been the Italian accompanist of the great tenor Nicolai Gedda, performing with him Lieder and Melodies from the Russian and French repertoire. He has given recitals in the most prestigious European ...

... engineering and graduated in 1996. During this time he commenced singing studies with Brigitte Dürrler and Lied Interpretation with Ria Goetze in Dusseldorf and completed his concert examinations ...

... client overheard him speaking about his desire to sing professionally, and offered to pay for his tuition to study with Karl Martin Oehmann - a well known Wagnerian tenor of the late 1920's. He studied ...

... of concert and operatic appearances with the famed tenor. This included the famous concert Pavarotti gave in his hometown of Modena, Italy, which was recorded on CD and video and broadcast live in Italy. ...